Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 758 Close to the core area
"I found it." Ivan, who was arranging the remains of Wu Feng, the "Uncle Hong" in Mo Jue's mouth, suddenly said, attracting everyone's attention.

"What did you find?" Ke Lan asked impatiently.

"I, I may have found the cause of his death." Ivan said, lifting up the two ribs he was holding in his hand, "This is because it is the fourth and seventh ribs of the deceased, you can see the ribs in the bones There are obvious traces left by a sharp weapon on the side... The fibers of the fog roost and the fog vines cannot cause such trauma, and I am more inclined that this person may have been killed by humans with a sharp weapon such as a dagger."

"If it is inferred from this, the direct cause of death should be that the chest was pierced many times by a sharp weapon..." Ke Lan nodded, and then asked, "Have you found any signs of damage to the bones? What about the joints of the limbs?"

Ivan nodded solemnly: "All of them... and I didn't find the wood fibers of the Misty Roost in the bones of this corpse. His flesh and blood should not be sucked by the Misty Roost, but decayed naturally over time. Yes, so..."

Ke Lan immediately turned to Mo Jue, stared at her and asked, "During that exploration operation, besides this Wu Feng and your father, were there other people missing?"

"No, no." Mo Jue was stunned for a moment, then shook his head, "It's just the two of them... Wait, what do you mean, the person who killed Hong...Wu Feng was my father?"

"It's not certain yet, but there's a high probability that it won't be wrong." Ke Lan pondered, "But Wu Feng is also one of the core members of the lumberjack team, and he also knows the 'secret' that your father has been pursuing... and because What is the reason that two people who originally had the same goal suddenly turned against each other, and even killed each other?"

"Are you so sure that my father killed him?" Mo Jue argued, "But you have to know that among the core members of the team, Uncle Hong and my father have the best relationship. They are friends of life and death. It's not an exaggeration!"

"Friends of life and death..." Ke Lan subconsciously looked at his companion, he thought for a while, and then asked Ivan, "What will happen to make you kill me?"

Ivan shook his head: "I don't know under what circumstances I will choose to kill you, but I know that if the erosive seeds in my body get out of control and turn me into a walking dead container, then you It will definitely help me end my pain."

"Then has this guy ever been parasitized by a seed of erosion or any other monster?" Ke Lan asked again.

"No. The sternum and ribs in the parasitic container of the eroded species will deform to varying degrees. This situation has not been found on this corpse." Ivan replied.

"That's another secret."

"Why do you all think my father is the murderer?" Mo Jue was still a little unwilling.

"I'm telling the truth, do you want to hear it?" Ke Lan turned his head and said.

"you say!"

"Intuition." Ke Lan laughed, "But my intuition has always been accurate."

"Based on intuition alone, you suspect that my father killed his friend?" Mo Jue looked a little unfriendly.

"Let's skip this question first." Ke Lan said, "Why don't you check Wu Feng's belongings to see if there are any clues... If you can find a 'navigation route' like a golden retriever, that would be great gone."

"Don't think about it, there is nothing!" At this time, 33 poked his head out of the pit and said, "This corpse was buried here after being stripped naked, and there were no personal belongings at all."

"It seems that the murderer is really Ms. Mo Jue's father." Ivan propped his chin and analyzed, "The two probably had disagreements on certain matters, and neither of them could convince the other, and then..."

"It's meaningless to discuss this now." 33 walked up from the pit, "What should we do next? Continue to explore at a depth of 500 meters, or go in?"

"Keep going in... I am more and more convinced that Mo Zhuorui may have... reached the core area of ​​the gray mist forest." Ke Lan said.

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The distance of 35 kilometers is not far, even for an untrained ordinary person, it only takes half a day to walk 35 kilometers.Of course, this refers to the straight-line speed on a flat road, and Ke Lan and the others, not only the road under their feet is rough and bumpy, but the total distance of going back and forth in circles and turning back has reached hundreds of kilometers. It took a day and a half to reach the end of the navigation line at a depth of 35 kilometers.

This is a depth that humans have never stepped into - even if the "special operations fleet" relied on the armor and energy shield of the battleship to rush to the center of the gray fog forest, it only crossed the red line for more than ten kilometers. It is not more than half of Ke Lan's deep distance.

"I used to think that the gray fog at 500 meters was as thick as solid. Now, I take that back." 33 murmured. He manipulated a black flying blade through the space barrier and pierced into the thick fog outside. In the middle, he stirred gently——From the perspective of visual effects alone, it seemed that what he stirred was not fog, but a mass of viscous asphalt.

33 The apostle let the black flying blade fly a little further, but just as the flying blade was completely submerged in the mist, his expression suddenly changed.

"What's wrong?" Ke Lan, who had been staring at him, wondered.

"The flying blade was not far into the mist, at most twenty or thirty centimeters, and the connection between me and the flying blade was cut off." 33 said, "I can't feel the flying blade, let alone Said to continue to manipulate it."

"I remember, you can control these flying blades at a distance of more than 150 meters, right?"

"If I only manipulate a single flying blade, the control radius can be doubled to 300 meters. If I am willing to bear a 'small price' to perform overdraft operations, then the farthest can reach more than 500 meters... But It’s just the operating distance, these flying blades have been marked by me, as long as they are within three kilometers from me, I can perceive their existence.”

"Then at the place of 500 meters just now, how far can you perceive the flying blade?"

"I haven't tried the extreme distance. Anyway, I can control the flying blade to come and go freely in the dense fog 50 meters away from us, without being affected at all."

Ze Luo pushed the space barrier forward another meter, and the thick asphalt-like mist was pushed away, revealing the black flying blade that fell on the ground.

The place where the black flying blade fell was only 25 centimeters away from the edge of the fog.

But when the fog receded, the black throwing knife immediately trembled twice, floated up from the ground, and flew back to 33's side.

"Everyone, be careful, this fog is very weird... and I feel that the fog here is completely different from the fog at a depth of several hundred meters." 33 pinched the black flying blade that had just lost contact for a while. There was no fog left on the blade, but he always had the feeling that the flying blade had been polluted.

"Valentina, help me unload the NO.13 cargo box." Ke Lan said.

The Blasphemer Mech slowly squatted down, and a rectangular engineering plastic box marked "NO.13" on the back shelf was pulled down by Valentina.

Ke Lan opened the lid of the box, and inside were six transparent terrariums side by side, and each terrarium contained a live mouse.

Ke Lan grabbed one of the mice and injected a tube of medicinal liquid into the mouse's body with a syringe.

"What did you call it?" Mo Jue, who was a little curious, couldn't help asking.

"Anti-neurotoxin drugs...Although they have serious side effects, they are the strongest anti-toxin drugs that Ark can find so far. I just injected this mouse with a dose of forty standard units, even for humans. , this dose is fatal, but this potion has an advantage—"

"What's the benefit?"

"No matter how large the dose is, even if the side effects kill a hundred people, it will take several hours for the side effects to be triggered after being absorbed by the organism." Ke Lan put the empty syringe into the recycling bag, and then He held the little white mouse and walked towards the dense fog, "Although this little white mouse has been sentenced to death, in the few hours before it died from the side effects of anti-toxins, it was almost immune to all poisons in terms of neurotoxins alone." invaded."

As soon as this sentence was finished, Ke Lan poked the little white mouse's head into the thick fog—the next second, the little white mouse's body twitched violently!
"Is this... is this a normal reaction to the medicine?" Mo Jue asked.

"Obviously, not." The little white mouse struggled for less than ten seconds before its body stopped moving.

Ke Lan took the mouse's body back, and saw black and red viscous blood continuously overflowing from the mouse's eye sockets, nasal cavity, ear canal and mouth, and the muscles all over his body became very stiff due to high tension, although the mouse's brain It has stopped moving, but its slender tail and hind legs will still twitch violently every ten seconds, as if telling everyone that its walking is not at all peaceful.

"It seems that the dose of [-] standard units is still too low." Ke Lan shook his head and grabbed the second mouse.

This time, he injected the little white mouse with [-] standard unit doses of ultra-concentrated anti-toxin in a somewhat frenzied manner—a full twenty-fold increase in the anti-toxin received by the first little white mouse!
The side effects of this dose of anti-toxin might not be able to withstand even a nine-level strengthened person, and for the mouse, even if it was not poisoned by the gray mist, it would be difficult to survive for more than one hour.

But in fact, the second mouse lasted only two seconds longer than the first one.

"It seems that there is no need to continue the experiment." Ke Lan closed the NO. The toxicity is different from the ones outside, or the concentration has reached an astonishing level, and you will die if you touch it."

"And the corrosiveness of this thing is not weak." Ivan said, looking at the fur of the mouse that seemed to have been soaked in a strong acid solution, "Ordinary explorers, even with a full set of protective equipment, cannot persist here." How long... the air valve, the oxygen pipe, and the joints of the protective clothing, once these weak places are corroded by the fog, they will surely die."

"Then you still say that Mo Jue's father may have reached the core area of ​​the gray mist forest? But he can't even pass through the thick fog in front of him." 33 said, "He didn't have the ability to The ability to expel the mist directly."

"33, do you know 'ablative armor'?" Ke Lan suddenly asked a seemingly irrelevant question.

"Of course I know, it is a kind of armor that takes away the energy contained in the attack through the vaporization of the material itself... It was often used on the space shuttles of the old era and some return capsules that need to pass through the atmosphere. It was also used on early warships. Ablative armor is used as a means of resisting energy attacks...but since the discovery of the shield generator of Alpha Civilization, energy shields have basically replaced the role of ablative armor, whether it is on battleships or mechs." 33 quickly replied, "Wait a minute... you mean, that guy is wearing a protective suit that is thick enough? This protective suit is thick enough to allow Mo Zhuorui to pass through the foggy area before being eroded by the fog ? But, where can he find such protective clothing?"

"Actually, you already mentioned the correct answer in the passage just now." Ke Lan smiled and said, "Mo Zhuorui doesn't need to find a thick enough protective clothing, what he wants is actually in this forest You can find them here, and there are quite a few of them.”

"What?" It was Mo Jue who asked again.

"Mecha." Valentina said the correct answer, "The armored unit that was destroyed in the forest, the cockpits of the mechas they equipped are completely sealed, and the fog can't seep in. And the military specifications The body frame and armor also have high requirements for corrosion resistance. As long as he can find a mecha that can be driven, and strengthen the armor and airtightness of the cockpit a little, he can drive this body through the foggy area without incident. .”

"It turned out to be a mech! I didn't expect it at all just now!" Mo Jue's eyes flashed with excitement, and then showed a complex expression, "Assumption... I mean hypothesis, Uncle Hong was really killed by my father Yes, he also buried the corpse with his own hands... Besides the corpse, there was a tank and a mecha... It is entirely possible for his father to find another mecha that is more intact and drive that mecha to The core area of ​​the forest...Could it be, did he really succeed?"

"I just proposed a feasible plan." Ke Lan sighed, "Regardless of whether your father has successfully crossed the last fifteen kilometers or not, the situation we are facing now is also confusing... Next , but you really have to cross the river by feeling the stones."

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